Gilham: Journal Entry

    Firstly I want to be remembered as a servant of the Lord. I wish to show others the love of Christ through my actions and willingness to serve. I have dedicated  my time to help serve others. Joining the Chik-Fil-A Leader Academy here at school has helped me be able to reach out and serve those in need. This program has been an asset for me to understand what it means to serve.

My family and I did well on food stamps because we went grocery shopping prior to this assignment, and we generally keep our groceries stocked. We are a family of three who had an allotted amount of $511 for the month, which was a total of $18.25 per day, and we were on food stamps for six days. We spent approximately $50 within those days on mostly unnecessary items because of not being prepared for dinner. However, had we not went grocery shopping and did not have many groceries on hand, this assignment would have been extremely challenging.

I want to devote the rest of my life serving Jesus and winning souls for

• To live every day for the betterment of my life and the lives of those around me.

I think I was about 11 years of age. It was a warm September evening. Our family was getting ready for another cookout. For those of you who don’t know, cookouts are when my family invites other family and/or friends over to cook hot dogs and toast marshmallows over a fire pit in our backyard. Usually after that my dad and I will usually play backyard baseball.

When I was four months old I started to sit up by myself. Once I was five months old I went on my first vacation to the beach. I also

To have continually in mind the passion that Christ suffered for me. For His benefits unceasingly to give Him thanks.

Everything was starting to look up and I had hope again. There were multiple occasions where I’d lost it and I would find myself asking God time after time why he did this to me. My mom told me it was one simple concept: God gives his hardest battles to his toughest

to be greater than what I think I am, and more like Christ. My wife is not a believer as much as I am, but I

I was cleaning my house. It was at a time when the restaurant I was working for was experiencing its seasonal closures and cutbacks on hours. I was spending more time at home than working. It was around the time I was learning the ropes of how to make a full-time income from home, but wasn't yet generating a solid income from sponsored sources, though I still had my article writing to provide me with a steady paycheck.

Food Stamp is a government-funded program in the United States. This is a program that helps people buy food for their families; in other words, it is a very important program to families living in poverty. It is the nation’s most important program in the fight against hunger. This program was developed in the 1960’s; it is made to improve the nutrition level and food purchasing power of people with low-income. This program is offered to people who cannot afford to buy groceries for their families, regardless of age, color, sex or religion. Food Stamps can only be used to buy food items not hygiene or household items, and it’s offered only on a monthly basis.

When I was four, that's when I got an agent and started going out for jobs.

being on the football team, also trying to become a educator and began to make things more

From pizza parties with my classmates or to me at home alone ordering dominos all for myself.

rule out many situations with positive outcomes. Furthermore, the language center was small and I was in